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<td>Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;</td>
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<td class="v">1:2</td>
<td>In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;</td>
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<td class="v">1:3</td>
<td>But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;</td>
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<td class="v">1:4</td>
<td>To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.</td>
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<td class="v">1:5</td>
<td>For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:</td>
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<td class="v">1:6</td>
<td>If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.</td>
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<td class="v">1:7</td>
<td>For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;</td>
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<td class="v">1:8</td>
<td>But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;</td>
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<td class="v">1:9</td>
<td>Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.</td>
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<td class="v">1:10</td>
<td>For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:</td>
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<td class="v">1:11</td>
<td>Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.</td>
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<td class="v">1:12</td>
<td>One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.</td>
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<td class="v">1:13</td>
<td>This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;</td>
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<td class="v">1:14</td>
<td>Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.</td>
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<td class="v">1:15</td>
<td>Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.</td>
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<td class="v">1:16</td>
<td>They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.</td>
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